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KTMCDO · #1 11-24-2001, 05:47 PM

<title>No Topic KENT MCDONALD KTMCDO ktmcdo@netzero.net</title>
i saw this msg in one of my Y!groups that i belong to excerpted from Randi column on 11/23/01: 
 
 
In the 1970s, there was a project that started at the Stanford Research 
Institute in California which proved totally useless — though to hear some 
of the hired participants, there were highly-selected "interesting" events 
in the last ten years of the project, which doesn't surprise us at all. 
After all, even a blind man finds a $20 bill, given enough time. Now, it 
seems, US intelligence agencies are reactivating some of their old 
paranormal delusions. One is a project they called, "STARGATE." 
 
Two former members of the STARGATE team said that they had recently been 
approached by the FBI and CIA to work for them. Transdimensional Systems, a 
company which claims to employ 14 "remote viewers," has confirmed that the 
FBI asked the company, headed by one Prudence Calabrese, to guess about 
possible future terrorist targets. After psychic cogitation, Prudence 
suggested that "a sports stadium" could be a likely target. Wow! Who would 
have ever suspected? While the FBI and CIA declined to comment officially, 
they confirmed that investigators have been told to "think out of the box." 
And perhaps "out of their minds"? But what the hell, this could only cost a 
couple million in tax dollars. There's loads of that money available. 
 
Time out. Readers might well be confused by the myriad of strange projects 
on which the US government has spent their tax dollars. Here's a run-down on 
one batch, showing how many incarnations it went through. 
 
What we are referring to here as, "Project STARGATE" began in response to 
CIA reports between 1969 and 1971 that the Soviet Union was engaged in 
"psychotronic" (paranormal, psychic) research, spending approximately 60 
million rubles a year on it, and over 300 million by 1975. This seemed to 
indicate to Washington savants that the Russians had obtained positive 
results, but the whole matter was considered speculative, controversial, and 
"fringy." Regardless, a budget was raised, and research began. Initially 
dubbed "SCANATE" (for "scan coordinates") by the CIA beginning in 1970, the 
project was given in 1972 to the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in 
California, and was headed up by laser physicists Russell Targ and Harold 
Puthoff, the latter at the time a high-ranking Scientologist. (Targ and 
Puthoff, in addition to other scientific breakthroughs, had excellent 
qualifications, because they had introduced the world to spoon-bender Uri 
Geller, though they were never able to validate his cutlery-mangling 
talents.) We should note that, aside from Dr. Puthoff, many of the "empaths" 
used at SRI for SCANATE were also Scientologists. 
 
In 1983, the project was briefly re-named the "INSCOM CENTER LANE" Project 
(ICLP), and in 1984 when the National Academy of Sciences' National Research 
Council evaluated the remote viewing program, they reported that their 
results were "unfavorable." 
 
Army funding ended in late 1985, the unit was transferred to Defense 
Intelligence Agency's Scientific and Technical Intelligence Directorate, and 
it was redesignated "SUN STREAK." In 1991 it was yet again renamed as 
"STARGATE" and came under the management of physicist Edwin May, a fervent 
believer in bump-in-the-night stories. 
 
Over more than two decades, some $20 million were spent on STARGATE and 
related activities, with $11 million of that budgeted from the mid-1980's to 
the early 1990's. More than 40 personnel were employed over that period, 
including about 23 "remote viewers." At its peak during the mid-1980s the 
program included as many as seven full-time "viewers"sitting in deep thought 
and scribbling on pads, and as many analytical and support personnel. Three 
of the viewers reportedly worked at Fort Meade for the CIA from 1990 through 
July 1995, and were made available to other government agencies which 
requested their services. 
 
The program was sustained through the support of Senator Claiborne Pell and 
Representative Charles Rose, who are known to be devout believers in the 
powers of Uri Geller and other such fantasies. However, by the early 1990s, 
investigations showed divisiveness within the group, poor performance, and 
few accurate results. The program was tossed back to the CIA, with 
instructions to conduct a review of the program. In 1995 the American 
Institutes for Research (AIR) evaluated it for the CIA, and their final 
report contained rather dramatic difference in opinions between statistician 
Jessica Utts and psychologist Dr. Ray Hyman, Utts raving over its 
effectiveness, and Hyman cooly pointing out the blatant faults. The final 
recommendation was to terminate STAR GATE, and it was abandoned. 
 
After twenty-three years and more than twenty million dollars of taxpayers' 
money, the CIA officially concluded that there was no case in which ESP had 
provided data used to guide intelligence operations. That conclusion seems 
not to have taught them much, and they've apparently jumped in again, 
holding hands with the FBI. 
 
Reader K. Tristan Mayer, of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) 
suggests, in light of the clamor for magical solutions, that our government 
may go all the way: 
 
Next they'll throw our tax money in a big pile and burn it as a sacrifice to 
the gods. 
Not unlikely! A suggestion like this, though perhaps not an official opinion 
of the ISI web-based platform, is of just the same quality as that being 
pursued in the resuscitation of STARGATE. Seriously, just consider these 
methods of divination: augury (examining the entrails of chickens), the 
appearance of comets, crystal-gazing, palmistry, the I Ching (that's 
"ee-jing"), astrology, Tarot cards, and reading tea-leaves. There is just as 
much positive evidence for these crackpot notions, as there is for remote 
viewing, in fact, much more! Will the FBI and CIA be calling in 
spoon-benders and gypsy fortune-tellers, next? That's a seriously-put 
question. If these agencies scoff at the question, we must ask them, WHY? 
Remote viewing is as much witchcraft as ANY of those other flummeries. Think 
about it!

DaringDarlingDFW · #2 11-24-2001, 10:56 PM

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snow · #3 12-12-2001, 11:23 PM

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thyroid cancer. There are suggestions that more 
individual states stockpile the drug, which reportedly 
costs only ten cents per pill. 
 
<a target=_new href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22582-2001Dec10.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22582-2001Dec10.html</a>

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